Relief Lead Operations and Maintenance; O&M Technician

Located 30 miles south of Albany, New Athens Generating stands as a formidable energy hub in the town of Athens, NY. Boasting a capacity of 1,080 megawatts, it operates three Siemens 501G combustion turbine generators fueled by natural gas combined-cycle technology, ensuring efficient and reliable power generation for the region. Nestled amidst scenic landscapes, this facility serves as a vital contributor to the area's electricity grid, meeting the demands of modern energy consumption with cutting‑edge technology.

The Relief Lead Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Technician at New Athens Generating provides oversight and functional direction to plant personnel, ensuring safe and efficient operation of all plant systems, including the startup and shutdown of main equipment and auxiliaries. This role is responsible for performing preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance, conducting inspections and operational tests, managing consumables, maintaining logs, and ensuring procedural compliance across all operations.

The Relief Lead O&M Technician also supports training and development of O&M staff, communicates effectively with internal and external stakeholders, serves as site representative after hours, and performs additional duties to maintain operational excellence.

Your scope of responsibility as Relief Lead O&M Technician will include the following primary functions :

• Oversees and provides functional direction to plant O&M personnel regarding plant operations, including the startup and shutdown of main plant equipment and auxiliaries.
• Serves as the lead system representative on assigned systems.
• Operates under general direction and minimal supervision, following established procedures. Decisions are made within prescribed operating guidelines. Work involves recurring high‑complexity situations, with occasional variations from the norm.
• Has the authority to control plant operations safely, ensuring no accidents occur and maintaining compliance with all environmental permits.
• Conducts routine tours of the plant to inspect equipment, provides direction and feedback to team members, and ensures site safety requirements and procedures are consistently observed. Identifies safety hazards and takes corrective action as necessary.
• Ensures all plant switching and tagging of equipment is conducted in accordance with approved lock‑out/tag‑out procedures and prudent operations and maintenance practices.

• Plans and performs routine preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance on all systems and equipment.
• Performs electrical and mechanical inspections, troubleshooting, and operational tests on all power plant systems and components.
• Performs routine cycle chemistry and makes necessary adjustments to optimize efficiency. Monitors daily consumption rates of chemicals, gases, fuels, water, and other consumables; tracks inventories and initiates action to replenish them.
• Investigates plant problems, incidents, accidents, and unusual events, providing analyses, recommendations, reports, and appropriate follow‑up plans.
• Maintains accurate shift operating logs, records, time sheets, material requisitions, work reports of downtime, outages, repair requirements, and production indices.
• Interprets operating and maintenance data based on established standards and sound plant practices.
• Develops, reviews, and revises operating and related procedures, ensuring procedural compliance in all plant operations and maintenance activities.
• Plans and performs housekeeping duties, maintaining housekeeping standards or initiating corrective action as needed.
• Develops and monitors the planned daily operations schedule.

• Assists in the orientation, training, and development of new O&M Technicians. Designs, develops, and evaluates on‑the‑job and classroom training in operations and maintenance subjects.
• Prepares and administers lesson plans, visual aids, examinations, qualification standards, and other materials related to employee training and development.
• Communicates with personnel on‑site and…